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Losing in Vegas: Jay Caspian Kang's “literary moment”

Losing in Vegas: Jay Caspian Kang’s “literary moment”

In our latest Notable Narrative, “The High Is Always the Pain, and the Pain Is Always the High,” we meet Jay Caspian Kang, a gambler who dreams of being a…
Roy Peter Clark on "the power of the parts" for storytelling

Roy Peter Clark on "the power of the parts" for storytelling

Roy Peter Clark holds the post of senior scholar at the Poynter Institute, and as such is one of narrative journalism's hardest-working midwives. You may have already encountered him here on…

What we’re reading: novelists do nonfiction, a witness recants, and two friends jump into the Charles River

Today, we set aside election reporting (which we’ll return to soon) in order to gin up some reading for your Thursday anxieties: dubious conviction and cultural claustrophobia, not to mention…
Tech thoughts on storytelling: Amy Webb at ONA 2010

Tech thoughts on storytelling: Amy Webb at ONA 2010

Digital innovation is providing new tools with intriguing possibilities for storytelling. At the 2010 Online News Association Conference last weekend, Webbmedia’s Amy Webb presented tech trends she thinks might find…
2010 Online News Association conference awards highlight sites and stories

2010 Online News Association conference awards highlight sites and stories

Want to know what kind of online storytelling is turning heads? Over the weekend, the Online News Association held its 2010 conference in Washington, D.C. Competing with the Rally to…
Drea Cooper on visual storytelling, "California is a Place" and the maker in the middle of the story

Drea Cooper on visual storytelling, "California is a Place" and the maker in the middle of the story

Drea Cooper, the early yearsDrea Cooper partners with Zackary Canepari on “California is a Place,” a series of films chosen as our latest Notable Narrative. Cooper has done documentary work…

“California is a Place” draws viewers into dizzying, disturbing intimacy with the Golden State

Our latest Notable Narrative is the collected series “California is a Place,” from filmmaker Drea Cooper and photographer Zackary Canepari. Cooper and Canepari have done commercial work and journalism around…

Lane DeGregory's 10 tips for editors at AASFE 2010

Pulitzer Prize winner and St. Petersburg Times reporter Lane DeGregory spoke at the American Association of Sunday and Feature Editors Conference in Florida earlier this month. She has made a…
Anna Badkhen on her two books about war and a decade as a "professional intruder"

Anna Badkhen on her two books about war and a decade as a "professional intruder"

I had a chance to sit down last week with Anna Badkhen in Washington, D.C., to talk about her two books out this year, “Peace Meals” and “Waiting for the Taliban”…

Tracy Kidder in conversation with Darcy Frey, part 2: "I write as fast as I can to prevent remorse for having written badly."

Today we offer part 2 of last week’s discussion of narrative nonfiction between Tracy Kidder and Nieman Fellow Darcy Frey. (Check out the first installment, if you haven’t read it…